{"id":7320,"date":"2026-05-25T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/wc\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=7320"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:09:39","slug":"leilah-nejjaar","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/wc\/speaker\/leilah-nejjaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Leilah Najjaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leilah Najjaar is the Founding Director for Clinical Service Improvement at the Department of Health &amp; Wellness, Western Cape Government, Cape Town, South Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is an alumnus of the University of the Western Cape, School of Pharmacy, School of Public Health and the International Program in Public Health Leadership at the University of Washington. She is an experienced Public Sector Healthcare Manager with a keen interest in improving health systems and community access to quality healthcare. During the last 15 years she has worked on various special projects, strategic service planning, monitoring, policy development and implementation support in the public healthcare sector.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is also a wife and mother of two and believes in work-life balance for optimal wellness and productivity.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her current role she is responsible to design, test and implement sustainable healthcare improvements&nbsp; to meet the needs of the Western Cape\u2019s population.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7321,"template":"","speaker_category":[42],"speaker_year":[38],"class_list":["post-7320","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_category-conference-speaker","speaker_year-38"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leilah Najjaar - Western Cape Procurement Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leilah Najjaar is the Founding Director for Clinical Service Improvement at the Department of Health &amp; Wellness, Western Cape Government,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/wc\/speaker\/leilah-nejjaar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leilah Najjaar - 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